Thursday THREATCON – 21 April 2016

It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the sudden death of Prince, our Threatcon Color Code is PURPLE REIGN

Tragically, a 16 year-old student was killed by an assault in a high school restroom today — but contrary to anti-trans propaganda, the perp wasn’t a man in a dress. 14 year-old Ashanti Mills was also dragged out of a school bathroom for the crime of wearing a headband, but of course her attacker was a police officer; charges of resisting arrest were dropped last week

The largest longitudinal study ever conducted on the children of same-gender versus heterosexual households finds there are “no differences” in the emotional or physical health of children raised by gay or lesbian couples

Video has emerged showing Mark Crutcher, a forced-birth activist who advised fraudulent pseudo-journalist David Daleiden as he set out to fabricate smears against Planned Parenthood, admitting that his protege “made some mistakes” that will “cost” him. Daleiden has been indicted by a Houston, Texas grand jury and the California Attorney General’s office recently excecuted a search warrant on Daleiden’s apartment

Two Ohio ‘sovereigns’ were charged with possession and manufacture of a dangerous ordnance after one of them lost his hands to an accidental detonation while building a homemade bomb as part of an armed robbery scheme

Canadian Rajiv Dixit, who awaits trial for his role in the ‘Banner Brokers’ online advertising Ponzi scheme, has begun using ‘sovereign citizen’ tactics in his fight to delay an inevitable prison sentence

So-called ‘constitutional sheriff’ and overgrown sovereign citizen Richard Mack wants more American law enforcement chiefs to substitute his deranged belief-system for the laws of the land

Ted Cruz’s national security adviser, the anti-Muslim organizer Jerry Boykin, gave credence to a pair of internet hoaxes when he told talk show host Sandy Rios that Sharia law is taking over in Michigan and Texas

Paleoconservatism and right wing reactionary internet culture are raising a demonic baby called the ‘Alt-Right Movement’ that embraces fascism, patriarchy, and even the return of monarchies

Have you heard that Irish slaves were brought to America for centuries, and treated even worse than Africans? Mere revisionist bunk, the myth of the ‘Irish slaves’ has proven popular with white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, and racists trolling the Black Lives Matter movement

An Oregon jury found 63 year-old Kenneth Mendenbach guilty of building an illegal cabin on a federal road during the Sugar Pine Mine standoff last year, when the Oath Keepers militia supported two gold miners in their clash with the Bureau of Land Management. Mendenbach was the first militant arrested during the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge when officers spotted him driving a Fish & Wildlife Service-owned truck to a Burns, OR grocery store

Oregon’s ‘patriot’ militias are trying to win several county offices around the state next month in a bid to move their anti-government land policy agenda forward even though the Malheur occupiers await trial

Cliven Bundy’s cows are starving and overpopulated, but militia threats of violence are causing the Bureau of Land Mangement to drag their feet over removal

Charles and David Koch are funding the Prosper Foundation, a repurposed nonprofit originally created to oppose Obamacare, in order to block plans to protect the Grand Canyon from uranium mining